specializing in adolescent girls and young women's mental health

Welcome To Juno House.

Juno House™, located in Calgary, Alberta, is a private practice counselling service specializing in the unique problems and challenges that adolescent girls, young women and their families encounter in our increasingly difficult world that girls must maneuver through.

The team of specialists at Juno House believe in each person’s ability and the abilities of families to change lives. The world is not good enough; we must make it better.

If you’re interesting in financially supporting adolescent girls mental health, check out www.ArnicaFoundation.ca

Upcoming Event – Two-day clinical workshop for therapists

The Power of Showing Up:

Clinical Application of Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Supporting Parents of Teens with the Brain in Mind

In-person workshop by Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, clinician, consultant, and internationally recognized author of two New York Times Best Sellers The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, and The Yes Brain and The Power of Showing Up, co-authored with Dan Siegel.

In this two-day, workshop Tina will look at what the science says about the best predictors for how kids and teens develop, and how clinicians can work with parents in two main areas: cultivating secure attachment, and responding to challenges, both the run-of-the-mill kind and more significant social and emotional issues. Drawing on attachment and child development research, the science of interpersonal neurobiology, and clinical experience, she’ll discuss the latest scientific research–with a special emphasis on neuroplasticity and the changing brain–in a way that’s clear, interesting, and immediately practical.

Participants will learn:

Apply the framework of interpersonal neurobiology to child development, clinical practice, and parenting in a clinical setting.
Be intentional about teaching specific caregiving and intervention approaches to shape how children’s brains are wired.
Learn tools and ways of communicating with parents that clinicians can use immediately in sessions with parents.
Understand implicit memory, and how to work with, and even effectively use our own emotional and physiological responses/reactions when working with families and their trauma.
Utilize Whole-Brain strategies to lay the groundwork for promoting integration and mental health in parents and their children.
Utilize intervention and questions for reflection to support the development of parental earned secure attachment and the building of a coherent narrative.

WHEN
Tuesday April 8 and Wednesday April 9, 8:30 AM to 4PM daily.

WHERE
Hotel Arts, Calgary, AB

A block of rooms has been set aside at a conference rate of $179 plus tax. Booking cut off Saturday, March 8, 2025. Hotel Arts Booking Link: Arnica Foundation

REGISTRATION
Early Bird Fee (cut-off date February 29, 2025): $495 per person
Regular Fee: $550 per person

Please note that the last day for registration is Thursday, April 3, 2025

A Certificate of Completion will be provided for verification of CEU credits.

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Registration

Sponsored by Arnica Foundation. Arnica Foundation invests in adolescent girls
and young women to help them grow into emotionally strong and powerful women. www.arnicafoundation.ca

Upcoming Event – Public presentation for parents

Parenting with the Brain in Mind

Presenting internationally recognized Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, clinician, consultant, and internationally recognized author of two New York Times Best Sellers The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, and The Yes Brain and The Power of Showing Up, co-authored with Dan Siegel.

What if parents had a simple and practical way to use the latest scientific research to be better parents and help their children be happier, healthier, and more successful? Parenting with the Brain in Mind introduces parents and teachers to essential and ground-breaking science in an accessible, interesting, and practical way, so they can then apply that knowledge in their breakfast-table, grocery-store, temper-tantrum, everyday care-giving world.

Drawing on cutting-edge science and the ideas in her books The Whole-Brain Child and The Power of Showing Up, this presentation will use stories and humor to teach practical information about a child’s brain and offer a new perspective on some of the most pressing concerns, along with some tools and strategies for addressing them:

How can I help them better handle their emotions at home and in school?
How can I discipline in a way that’s more effective and loving?
How can I cultivate my relationship with my child? OR How can I build a secure attachment with my child?
How can I nurture resilience and a positive mindset in my child?

The “Brain-in-Mind” perspective, along with the many practical tools that result from it, can empower parents to raise kids who are happy, healthy, balanced, and more fully themselves.

WHEN
Tuesday April 8, 2025
No-host bar opens at 6:00 pm
Theatre doors open at 6:30 pm
Presentation 7 to 8 pm.

WHERE
Bella Theatre, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB

REGISTRATION
$25
Assigned seating

Registration

Sponsored by Arnica Foundation. Arnica Foundation invests in adolescent girls
and young women to help them grow into emotionally strong and powerful women. www.arnicafoundation.ca

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Your stories. our beliefs

Our courageous girls and parents find their voices.

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“Logic and reason can inform us, but emotions make us decide and act.”

– Antonio Damasio, Brain Researcher

“You will notice the difference the minute you walk through the front door… from the young women’s art adorning the walls, to the passion that everyone exudes about the work we do! You will sense this is all about becoming the best you can be. Parents, you will be joined in your passion to help your daughter, and you will find your own answers and support with us. We help girls and young women find their voices, and use them to take on every challenge in their world. They will speak in exclamations!!!”

Lois Sapsford

Founder, Juno House

about Us

We believe that everyone who walks through our door can find their voices, and challenge beliefs and patterns that are causing their lives to crumble. It is our job to identify those patterns and to help find new meaning in old beliefs – to rewire the brain to develop new, healthy behaviors.

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